[erlang-questions] Controversial subject of the day: tabs and spaces for indentation

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 02/05/2014 07:35 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Andrew Thompson <andrew@REDACTED> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 07:14:30PM +0100, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> It's been almost a full day since the last controversial issue was
>>> discussed here and I feel it's time for a new one (well, it's actually
>>> old).
>>>
>>> The default indentation used by the erlang-mode uses a mix of tabs and
>>> spaces. Whatever side one is in the "tabs vs spaces" war, mixing them
>>> is the common enemy!
>>
>> As a vim user, I find the emacs indent mode for erlang incredibly
>> annoying to 'fake' by hand. I'd love to see the tabs die as mixing tabs
>> and spaces makes erlang files a horrible mess when your tabstop is not
>> 8.
>
> I'm curious what the argument *for* mixed tabs and spaces is. It is to
> save precious disk space?

The argument isn't very interesting, intent is much more so. It all 
comes from one guy who figured a way to troll everyone alive at the time 
plus all future generations forever, and succeeded.

-- 
Loïc Hoguin
http://ninenines.eu